This kind of knee-jerk “hot take” reactions is one of my big pet peeves of the modern internet. Making these snarky comments is not helping anything. It’s akin to “owning the libs” in it’s simplistic stupidity. We just love to play victim “oh no I have to sort my trash while an oil plant is much worse for the environment than me, boohoo”
I mean the rain forest being flattened for a road is obviously bad. But this road is not being built specifically for the COP meeting, the plans had been there since 2012. That doesn’t make it right. I don’t know whether the pros and cons weigh up to one another, but it’s a far cry from "environmental conference destroys rain forest. Every country in the world currently puts its own development ahead of environmentalism.
Other than that flying out world leaders for a conference is a tiny, tiny drop in the CO2 bucket and is our best hope for concerted efforts to combat climate change.
I agree with you that this “hot take” is bad, but it’s because the takeaway should not be “the elites don’t care, so why should I” and instead “we need to forcibly make the elites care.”
Stop apologizing for those obviously responsible for destroying the planet.
Also, most of the Amazon deforestation is driven by agriculture, not luxury resorts, etc.
Are we going to pretend that each billionaire is capable of eating 200 tons of beef daily to drive the current demand?
I think it’s useful to consider both contexts, though. Many of us try to make the best environmentally conscious decisions we can in our lives but should also think about how pollution or environmental damage happens in the grand scale.
I didn’t see this is a boo hoo thing, more of a, isn’t it silly how we do the small things while people do the big things? It’s more of a search for irony.
